An employee of former U.S. Senate candidate Annette Bosworth has filed a lawsuit claiming he wasn’t paid for services he rendered to Bosworth’s legal defense fund.

Mitchell Olson says he was hired by the Dr. Annette Bosworth Legal Defense Fund in June 2016 as a consultant. He was paid $4,000 a month from the fund, working primarily from the home of Bosworth and her husband, Chad Haber, who is also named in the lawsuit. Olson said he wasn’t paid for work he performed in May, June and July of this year. He says he is owed $24,000 for work that included scripts and video for movies.

“Plaintiff received monies or other compensation from the fund for the services he provided Bosworth, Haber and the fund,” the lawsuit says.

Bosworth said Monday that she knew Olson but was unaware he had filed a lawsuit. She said she has no direct connection with the legal defense fund.

“There was a threat of this but I have nothing to do with it,” she said, calling it “sad.”

Bosworth ran for the GOP nomination for U.S. Senate in 2014 during a stormy campaign in which former employees of her medical practice and her former campaign consultants accused her of not paying bills.

A legal defense fund was established after state authorities accused her of perjury and submitting forged documents after she turned in candidate petitions in which she claimed to have witnessed voters signing the petitions. At the time the petitions had been signed, Bosworth was on a high-profile trip to the Philippines to provide medical care following a typhoon.

This summer, the South Dakota Supreme Court vacated the six felony convictions for perjury, giving her a legal victory.

Throughout it all, Bosworth has waged a battle against the South Dakota Board of Medical and Osteopathic Examiners to retain her medical license. She has continued to practice medicine for free, she said Monday, including more than 500 hours on the Pine Ridge Reservation.

Olson’s lawsuit included a 16-page letter purportedly written by Bosworth and sent on behalf of her legal defense fund in order to raise money from donors. In the letter, she blasts the state’s political establishment as corrupt, and she tells potential donors that she was prosecuted because she threatened to upend a corrupt political culture.

The letter is especially vehement against Attorney General Marty Jackley, who prosecuted Bosworth. It notes that Jackley was appointed by then Gov. Mike Rounds, who Bosworth faced in her 2014 Senate campaign.

“Attorney General Marty Jackley has continued to strengthen his mafia-like-corruption in South Dakota,” the letter says. “Since his appointment (not election) in 2009, he has become deeply entrenched.”

Olson’s lawsuit claims the defense fund “is little more than an alter ego of Bosworth and Haber.”